Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
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I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.
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Art is life's dream interpretation.
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I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
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As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.
